Salon challenges Michael Pollan’s stance on gardening for a better world.

The Michael Pollan effect, as seen through restaurant eyes.

The blogosphere is enraptured by Michael Pollan’s cover story in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine.

Can compassionate farming methods bring about a resurgence of interest in veal?

CSA produce box programs are booming.

Food heavyweights tell Grist what they would say if they were stuck in an elevator with the next president.

Pollan pens a nine-page letter to the next “farmer in chief.”

Gastronomica has published a fascinating exploration of American gastropolitics throughout U.S. history.

Robin Williams’s character gives a local-foods defense on a network police drama.

Is it possible to be a gourmet if you don’t have the resources?

Community Supported Agriculture: It isn’t just for veggies anymore.

Like the nation’s obesity problem, food-producing conglomerates in the U.S. are big and getting bigger.

Nanotechnologists are bringing new improvements to food—on a molecular level.

Want to know where your steak’s coming from? Buy it at the source, says today’s San Francisco Chronicle in an article about the rising numbers of consumers going straight to the farm to get their meat.

Dan Barber and Fred Kirschenmann discuss what America needs to do to become more sustainable.